Jeff Id

I’m sorry to learn that Jeff Id has suspended operation of his blog in order to properly carry out his obligations to his business and his young family.

Jeff introduced himself to Climate Audit soon after he started his blog (here)>. He began with a variety of interesting technical analyses of Mann et al 2008 – technical analyses of the type that interested me and CA readers here. My first mention of the blog was here.

I was a regular reader and will miss my daily visit to his blog. Jeff plans to stay in touch.

I don’t know how he managed to balance the responsibilities of a business and a young family with blog activity as long as he did, but am grateful that he managed as long as he did.

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I will try to fill in the gap of being an amateur sleuth on environmental matters that Jeff Id has left. My completed blog volume called The Oil ConunDRUM is available at http://TheOilConundrum.com. We need lots more amateur scientists and statisticians out there perturbing the BAU.

Personal tastes and interest vary of course, but there have been 5 blogs that I have bookmarked. I try to read most of them each day. They are Climate Audit, the Air Vent, Watts Up With That, Bishop Hill and Warwick Hughes’ Errors in IPCC Climate Science. (This is not discriminatory against other fine sites, like Steven Mosher’s, but some make my brain ache, through wishing I could contribute better).

I’ve emailed Jeff privately to say how much he will be missed – but I think we’ll see him posting without much of a pause.

Many others like me must hope most sincerely that the individuals behind these blogs are able to continue, demanding as it is, because it takes a rare combination of skills to succeed. It is becoming more evident as time passes that your joint efforts have already achieved a place in the history of science.

Is this the first time that the name of a commenter and the name of the post are identical on Climate Audit? I think we should be told. :)

(I already said how much I appreciate Jeff and tAV, shortly after he announced his retirement on WUWT. But it’s good to see the statistical climate blogs, as Steve called them at the height of the Yamal controversy, looking out for their own.)

As someone who has considered blogging but decided that my life did not need that kind of hell at present, I have nothing but best wishes for Jeff and his pursuits at this time in his life. Family must always be an important factor. I espressed my sadness at his suspension of blogging directly at his site. I feel encouraged by Steve: “Jeff plans to stay in touch.” His credentials have been well established.

Thanks to Steve and others who have the grit plus excellence of mind to make blogging a successful endeavor — and to champion the scientific method. I look forward to comments and posts by Jeff Id.

Yours was one of the few blogs I have read each day.
I look forward to your posts on CA and WUWT.

Getting your life balance is essential, particularly if you have a family.
Responsibility to yuor family comes before responsibility to the world.
That’s why I use a cover name, although some do not like it.

Steve: this would seem more appropriate for Nigel Lawson than Jeff Id. I suspect that Jeff is aging rock-and-roll vintage – pre-hip hop. Aerosmith, Pink Floyd rather than Jay-Z or Notorious B.I.G on one side or Beatles/Bob Dylan on the other. But just a guess.